07 March 2012

YouTube Service sent you a message: Your video has been approved

From: YouTube Service To: someEmail@someDomain.comSent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:56 AMSubject: YouTube Service sent you a message: Your video has been approved

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YouTube Service has sent you a message:
Your video has been approved
To:someEmail@someDomain.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661CprveBwgz&feature=topvideos_mp
You can reply to this message by visiting your inbox.

So you should not click on any links from that email because it will redirect you not to youtube but to an IP address something like: 67.199.66.27/bind.html

If you navigate to that link Google Chrome will tell you that:
"Warning: Something's Not Right Here!67.199.66.27contains content fromimages.motioncontrolrobotics.com, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site. ...."

15 comments:

Yup I noticed the spammy link in the mail immediately, but the sender is a genuine youtube account (service@youtube.com)! I marked it as spam, and now all my youtube mails are going to spam. How did they (the spammers) manage to do this? :(

I have also marked it as spam in yahoo mail but they're still coming in. Also perpetrates to report mail as spam with fake links to: help center | e-mail options | report spamNeedless to say these links are not working and all seem to be redirecting to : http://post04.pheno.com/allophonic.html

I have had the same issue. I have tried reporting it as both spam and phishing with no change to their frequency. In my case that's somewhat understandable because it's coming in from my Yahoo Mail, set to forward to Gmail.However there's no trace of it on Yahoo's side, but I will try their forums too (and failing that, close my Yahoo account).

There's a report on the IP address here:http://www.scumware.org/report/206.217.218.112

Who cares if you are receiving it too? Don't click on it? Duu -but I fell for the link to check my 'in box' which has the same link. If you run over it with your mouse it shows the redirect address on the bottom left of the window. What do we do about it?? It's always a different addr -so marking as spam does no good.

I started receving odd emails shortly after installing SWTOR, i hadent online gamed for about a year. Electronic Arts/Bioware/Origin, through accepting the EULA are given permission to track your web habbits, information on installed programs on your computer, and any newely installed software. I'm doing a fresh install of windows, the major changes the install program did on my system will not be removed when you uninstall origins software.

I turn off my HTML option in Firefox to avoid problems with HTML scripts that can sometimes add things to my computer via Active-X. When I get a message that my video has been approved by YouTube (and I did not put a video up on YopuTube), I get this:

Unfortunately, the above note has some information cut off. The jest of the previoys Email from Anonymous is that the link given in the Email when viewed in the HTML format shows that it is from YouTube while in the plain text format, the link shows that it is from "http://bigdiqcup.perso.sfr.fr/goodman.html" (not YouTube).

I clicked on it once, and I am not a moron despite what the fellow thinks. Or even a "MORON" - all big letter and in quotes - as he stated the word. In my case, it went to some Canadian pharmacy where they try to sell you Viagra.